The Grand Lodge Property.

rates , -which , in that case , should include warehouse room . Every lodge would , of course , provide its own jewels , and would be accommodated with proper lock-up cupboards in which to keep them , and , if they so wished it , the books of the lodge .

"We think our own scheme to be the one which may be the most readily and the most economically carried out , but we are aware that there is another in contemplation , which is not without its advantages , viz ., for Grand Lodge to build on the western portion of

the property ( which we have proposed to lease for a tavern ) a new building for the purposes of the Craft ; combining all the accommodation requisite , which we hold to be sine qua non in any arrangement ; and to let the present tavern and Grand Secretary ' s offices , for the purposes of a large and improved

tavern , having no nearer connection with the Ereemasons' Hall , or whatever it may be called , than that of being next door to it , with the privilege of supplying it with such refreshments the brethren may require , but this we believe will involve the

destruction of the temple , certainly as it now stands one of the most useless and inconvenient rooms in the whole building , and which is not used more than twice or three times a month , two thirds of the times when it is occupied being for want of a convenient Board Boom for the various committees to meet in .

" Whether either of these schemes or any other should be ultimately adopted , we trust that the nextsix months will not be frittered away as the last three or four years have been , but that before we enter another year a well defined plan will be adopted , which will ensure to the Craft the possession of a large

central building devoted entirely to Masonic purposes , open alike to the Masons of the metropolis and the provinces , and where brethren from all parts of the world may alwa 3 s receive a cordial aud fraternal welcome , whilst the accommodation provided iu the way of refreshments ( which is always found to be a

necessary adjunct of every place of public resort , from the Great Exhibition to the humblest concert room ) shall be placed on a footing second to none in the kingdom . There is another part of the question , and that not the least important , the financial , which we propose to treat of at another opportunity .

Our country towns are rapidly doing honour to their illustrious townsmen hy erecting monuments to them . The other day we recorded that a statue of Sir II . Davy is to be erected afc Penzance , and now Paisley purposes perpetuating the memory of her townsman , Wilson , by putting up a statue of that eminent ornithologist iu his native town . It will bo in bronze , a little larger than life , and will represent him examining a bird , that he has just shot . The statue , which is designed by Jlr . Mossland of Glasgow , willreston apedestal of Aberdeen granite , nine feet in height .

Masonic Facts.

MASONIC FACTS .

( Continued from $ age % 4 Q . ) 164 . Extracts from tlie Fabric Bolls of Westminster Abbey , Sfc . Pipe Moll 56 , Senry 3 rd , AB . 1271-72 . —Account of the works of the church at "Westminster , and the King's houses therefrom the Eeast of the

, Purification of the Virgin in this year , to the Eeast of St . Edmund the King and Martyr ( November 20 ) next following , before the king was buried , by Master Bobert de Beverley , mason , and by the vicar of Adam de Stratton , Clerk of the Exchequer . Eeceipts , £ 1212 Is . 0 sd ., and in marble freestone , as

well from Caen as Beigate , flints , & e ., £ 205 6 s . 10 M . ¦ timber , & c , £ 13 14 s . Id . ; lead , & c , £ 20 13 s . sld . , - tiles , £ 8 5 s . QcL , and for three wooden , angels made by task work , and placed in the aforesaid church , 20 s . And for wages of certain pavior masons , making the pavements before various altars in the said church , carpenters , painters , and other workmen , " and of a certain workman making a clock by task work , " £ 648 12 s . Sd .

Boll 15 JEdioard Srd , 1342 . — Eour stones bought for making capitals , 4 s . "Wages of a Mason for repairing bays of windows for one week , 2 s . 6 cl . Making 4 stone capitals , 2 s . Sd . Hire of a Mason for lid . a day for placing said

capitals , aud repairing columns , 1 \ d . 11 corbels of stone bought , 5 s . 4 id . "Wages of two masons clearing drains , and making and placing the said corbels , 21 days , 10 s . Sd . Paid to "Walter de Bole , mason , for the repair and making- of four windows and one great pillar b y

special agreement , £ 20 . His wages for making parapets , 60 s . Dress , boots , gloves , and food found . Boll 18 Mioarcl 3 rd ( 1345 ) . —Wages of two bedders of stone , also bread and ale given to the masons , abbots' men , and many others working on Monday that they might better expedite the work on account of water in the foundation , 7 jcZ .

Account of Brother John de Mordone for the wort of the new cloister , 23 to 26 Edward 3 rd ( 1350-1353 ) . Receipts , £ 71 6 s . 5 d . "Wages of two masons from Eeast of St . Michael to February 23 ( 21 weeks ) 70 s ., when a new agreement was made with them on account of flesh time , whereby each had M . a week

more , viz ., 2 s . a week from Eeb . 23 to Michaelmas . To one of litem as Master of tlie icorh , 26 s . Sd . over Ms wages , and for liis dress , 13 s . 4 > d . ; for two pair of shoes , 3 s . , and to their hoy , 12 d . "Wages of Adam de Wytteneye , a bedder of stone , for 34 weeks , from the Eeast of tlie Purification ,

66 s . Sd . ; his servant , 48 s . 63 carfc-loads of stone from the quarry to Battersea , £ 4 14 s . Qd . ; carriage of same from Battersea to "Westminster by water , 7 s . 10 k £ . ; carriage of same from the water to the church , nothing , because in the sacrist ' s carts , but in expenses of those helping to load the carts 2 s . ; from

cement for joining the stones ; 6 cl , besides wax the sacrist . Making masons' tools for the year , 4 s . Sd . ; two bundles of steel for tools for the quarry , 20 < Z . ; putting on the steel and sharpening the tool , 6 s . ; two boat loads of rag stone , 22 s .